Current Exhibition:
Aa Collections and FOTO WIEN present
"Cognitive Work of Images"
by Žarko Aleksić
Vernissage 03.04.2019 7pm
Exhibition 04.04 -20.04.2019 We - Sa 4-8pm
The exhibition deals with several aspects of the Image, from its physicality to the pictorial mental representation. The use of consciousness as an artistic medium, and attention as a main currency within the frame of immediate content, creates temporality hence sequentiality and narration in the stream of thoughts.
In the project I am using scientific knowledge and methodologies along with technological possibilities of the eye tracking devices in order to establish what would be called "the mental collage in time." Taking the difference between descriptive and performative utterances as a starting point, I am proposing a performative image which goes beyond description, regulating the manifest content.
The investigation is based on the synthesis of different techniques of modernism: collage, montage, syncopation and random chance operation, while using personal beliefs and expectations of a conscious observer as the locus for construction of the new emerging pieces.
https://www.fotowien.at/en/programme-2019/
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Urgent Perspectives #3
Elena Anosova (RUS), Carla Cabanas (PT), Jianan Qu (A/China)
Vernissage: 25.04.2019, 7 pm
Exhibition: 26.04 - 04.05.2019 / We-Sa 4pm - 8pm
Finissage: 04.06.2019, 18:00: mit einer Performance von Jianan Qu und Viltė Švarplytė
Curated by: Barbara Holub
In the frame of the Artists-in-Residence-Mentoring-Program of the Federal Chancellary of Austria and KulturKontakt Austria
Urgent Perspectives
takes place at changing exhibition venues in Vienna as part of the AIR Mentoring Program of the Federal Chancellery / KulturKontakt Austria and uses existing networks and resources. After Urgent Perspectives # 1 (2017) in the project space Viktor Bucher, Urgent Perspectives # 2 (2018) at the alternative art fair PARALLEL VIENNA, Urgent Perspectives # 3 2019 will be held in Aa collections in the 15th district. The Künstler-Galerie is located in a pub of a social housing, which opens a new context for "Urgent Perspectives".
The ambivalence of "urgent", i.e. what we perceive as short-term needs, and "perspectives" that are usually long-term, point to the contradiction with which we are confronted in our day-to-day actions. In Urgent Perspectives, the temporary status of AIR artists meets with the durational status of artists based in Vienna. The moment of the meeting is fluid and temporary. However, there is the possibility of a culmination of exchange, which extends beyond the brief encounter of an exhibition, stimulating a polylog between artists-in-residence of KulturKontakt Austria and Austrian artists in the future.
The different working methods and projects of the artists serve as a dispositive to reflect "urgent perspectives" from their respective backgrounds. Thus, the exhibition series becomes a cumulative process on issues of "urgency" and "perspectives" that reflect the spectrum of personal artistic concerns to far-reaching societal, economic and environmental issues of society.
The work of Elena Anosova, Carla Cabanas and Jianan Qu, in particular, discusses the role that the media play in our time in various ways. Elena Anosova refers to Marshall McLuhan, who in 1964 coined in "Understanding Media" the distinction between "hot media" (which does not actively involve the viewer, e.g. radio and film) and "cool media" (in which the viewer can intervene). More than half a century later, the "cool media" via social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have become a compulsion to permanent communication and self-expression, on the basis of which the "status" is measured by the “friends”' community and in society. With short and often demagogic messages, social media now have a greater impact than conventional media, which feel obliged to a differentiated reporting and substantiated information content due to research.
How the individual interacts with the intricate web of informational content, and what responsibility the individual assumes for the community, is reflected in the work in the ever-renewed tension between privacy and intimacy (Carla Cabanas), the exposure of self (Jianan Qu) and self-reflection (Elena Anosova). Urgent Perspectives # 3 also refers to the original function of the exhibition space on a parallel level, which was an important infrastructure for the social housing it belongs to and is now being given a new role by being used as a gallery.
Elena Anosova (*1983, Irkutsk)
Lives and works between Moskau and Irkutsk.
Her work explores especially subjects of isolation and borders. Elena Anosova is a member of MAPS (www.mapsimages.com) and she lectures at the Rodchenko Art School (Moskau), The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moskau) and at the Academy Fotografika (St.Petersburg).
Selected shows: 2018 „Out-of-the-way“, Schilt Publishing & Gallery, Amsterdam (NL); The 6th LUMIX-Festival, Hannover (D); Strategic project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Please, thank you, I’m sorry”, NCCA, Moskau (RUS); „Connections“, Gallery Kvaka 22, Belgrade Photo Month (Serbia); 2017 «Beyond The Boundaries», Metenkov's House Museum, Ekaterinburg (RUS); 2016 „Section“, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe (USA).
Selected awards: World Press Photo, Center Project, LensCulture, Garage Museum's Grant Program for Emerging Artists.
http://anosova.com/
Carla Cabanas (*1979, Lissabon)
Lives and works in Lisbon.
Carla Cabanas’s work revolves around the methodologies of stretching the defined borders of the photography medium while dwelling on the issues of collective and cultural memory.
Selected shows: 2019: Museu Coleção Berardo, Lissabon (PT); 2018: Biennale de l'Image Tangible, Paris (F); Grimmmuseum, Berlin (D); Centre D'art Contemporain, Meymac (F); GlogauAIR, Berlin (D); 2017 Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (PT); Gallery Carlos Carvalho - Arte Contemporânea, Lissabon; Castello Visconteo Di Legnano, Milano (I); Panal 361, Buenos Aires (Argentina); 2016 Ox Warehouse, Macau (China); 7ª BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE, 2013; Espaço CACAU in São Tomé and Príncipe, 2013.
Selected awards: Photography Prize Purificacion Garcia, 2012 (Honorable Mention); Ariane de Rothschild Painting Award, 2005 (3rd prize).
Collections: PLMJ Foundation Collection, BES ART Collection, Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe, LPS Collection (Stanislas y Leticia Poniatowski) sowie private Sammlungen.
www.carlacabanas.com
Jianan Qu (*1985 in Shandong/China)
Lives and works in Vienna and Linz.
Jianan Qu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, installation, objects and video. His performances are conceptual, reduced and minimal, which at the same time have an immense visual impact. He was visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2018) and he lectures at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.
Selected shows: 2019 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (D); Organhaus Chongqing (China); Trinity Laban, London (UK); 2018 Krinzinger Lesehaus (Galerie Krinzinger), Untermarkersdorf (A); 2017 Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest (H); 2016 Vienna Art Week (A); Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (A); Landesgalerie Linz (A); 2015 Oslo LUX (N); 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival; 2006 ImpulsTanz Vienna (A).
In 2017 Jianan Qu founded medo space (http://www.medo.co.at/) together with the Vienna based Chinese curator Hongwei Duan, and curated a series of exhibitions in the frame of The BLANKETs Program.
http://jiananqu.com/
Elena Anosova (RUS), Carla Cabanas (PT), Jianan Qu (A/China)
Vernissage: 25.04.2019, 7 pm
Exhibition: 26.04 - 04.05.2019 / We-Sa 4pm - 8pm
Finissage: 04.06.2019, 18:00: mit einer Performance von Jianan Qu und Viltė Švarplytė
Curated by: Barbara Holub
In the frame of the Artists-in-Residence-Mentoring-Program of the Federal Chancellary of Austria and KulturKontakt Austria
Urgent Perspectives
takes place at changing exhibition venues in Vienna as part of the AIR Mentoring Program of the Federal Chancellery / KulturKontakt Austria and uses existing networks and resources. After Urgent Perspectives # 1 (2017) in the project space Viktor Bucher, Urgent Perspectives # 2 (2018) at the alternative art fair PARALLEL VIENNA, Urgent Perspectives # 3 2019 will be held in Aa collections in the 15th district. The Künstler-Galerie is located in a pub of a social housing, which opens a new context for "Urgent Perspectives".
The ambivalence of "urgent", i.e. what we perceive as short-term needs, and "perspectives" that are usually long-term, point to the contradiction with which we are confronted in our day-to-day actions. In Urgent Perspectives, the temporary status of AIR artists meets with the durational status of artists based in Vienna. The moment of the meeting is fluid and temporary. However, there is the possibility of a culmination of exchange, which extends beyond the brief encounter of an exhibition, stimulating a polylog between artists-in-residence of KulturKontakt Austria and Austrian artists in the future.
The different working methods and projects of the artists serve as a dispositive to reflect "urgent perspectives" from their respective backgrounds. Thus, the exhibition series becomes a cumulative process on issues of "urgency" and "perspectives" that reflect the spectrum of personal artistic concerns to far-reaching societal, economic and environmental issues of society.
The work of Elena Anosova, Carla Cabanas and Jianan Qu, in particular, discusses the role that the media play in our time in various ways. Elena Anosova refers to Marshall McLuhan, who in 1964 coined in "Understanding Media" the distinction between "hot media" (which does not actively involve the viewer, e.g. radio and film) and "cool media" (in which the viewer can intervene). More than half a century later, the "cool media" via social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have become a compulsion to permanent communication and self-expression, on the basis of which the "status" is measured by the “friends”' community and in society. With short and often demagogic messages, social media now have a greater impact than conventional media, which feel obliged to a differentiated reporting and substantiated information content due to research.
How the individual interacts with the intricate web of informational content, and what responsibility the individual assumes for the community, is reflected in the work in the ever-renewed tension between privacy and intimacy (Carla Cabanas), the exposure of self (Jianan Qu) and self-reflection (Elena Anosova). Urgent Perspectives # 3 also refers to the original function of the exhibition space on a parallel level, which was an important infrastructure for the social housing it belongs to and is now being given a new role by being used as a gallery.
Elena Anosova (*1983, Irkutsk)
Lives and works between Moskau and Irkutsk.
Her work explores especially subjects of isolation and borders. Elena Anosova is a member of MAPS (www.mapsimages.com) and she lectures at the Rodchenko Art School (Moskau), The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moskau) and at the Academy Fotografika (St.Petersburg).
Selected shows: 2018 „Out-of-the-way“, Schilt Publishing & Gallery, Amsterdam (NL); The 6th LUMIX-Festival, Hannover (D); Strategic project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Please, thank you, I’m sorry”, NCCA, Moskau (RUS); „Connections“, Gallery Kvaka 22, Belgrade Photo Month (Serbia); 2017 «Beyond The Boundaries», Metenkov's House Museum, Ekaterinburg (RUS); 2016 „Section“, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe (USA).
Selected awards: World Press Photo, Center Project, LensCulture, Garage Museum's Grant Program for Emerging Artists.
http://anosova.com/
Carla Cabanas (*1979, Lissabon)
Lives and works in Lisbon.
Carla Cabanas’s work revolves around the methodologies of stretching the defined borders of the photography medium while dwelling on the issues of collective and cultural memory.
Selected shows: 2019: Museu Coleção Berardo, Lissabon (PT); 2018: Biennale de l'Image Tangible, Paris (F); Grimmmuseum, Berlin (D); Centre D'art Contemporain, Meymac (F); GlogauAIR, Berlin (D); 2017 Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (PT); Gallery Carlos Carvalho - Arte Contemporânea, Lissabon; Castello Visconteo Di Legnano, Milano (I); Panal 361, Buenos Aires (Argentina); 2016 Ox Warehouse, Macau (China); 7ª BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE, 2013; Espaço CACAU in São Tomé and Príncipe, 2013.
Selected awards: Photography Prize Purificacion Garcia, 2012 (Honorable Mention); Ariane de Rothschild Painting Award, 2005 (3rd prize).
Collections: PLMJ Foundation Collection, BES ART Collection, Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe, LPS Collection (Stanislas y Leticia Poniatowski) sowie private Sammlungen.
www.carlacabanas.com
Jianan Qu (*1985 in Shandong/China)
Lives and works in Vienna and Linz.
Jianan Qu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, installation, objects and video. His performances are conceptual, reduced and minimal, which at the same time have an immense visual impact. He was visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2018) and he lectures at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.
Selected shows: 2019 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (D); Organhaus Chongqing (China); Trinity Laban, London (UK); 2018 Krinzinger Lesehaus (Galerie Krinzinger), Untermarkersdorf (A); 2017 Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest (H); 2016 Vienna Art Week (A); Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (A); Landesgalerie Linz (A); 2015 Oslo LUX (N); 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival; 2006 ImpulsTanz Vienna (A).
In 2017 Jianan Qu founded medo space (http://www.medo.co.at/) together with the Vienna based Chinese curator Hongwei Duan, and curated a series of exhibitions in the frame of The BLANKETs Program.
http://jiananqu.com/
Candy Crush
Adam Cohen
Vernissage: 09.05.2019, 7pm
Exhibition: 10.05 - 25.05.2019 / We-Sa 4pm - 8pm
Adam Cohen
Vernissage: 09.05.2019, 7pm
Exhibition: 10.05 - 25.05.2019 / We-Sa 4pm - 8pm
Walkie Talkie x Aa Collections
16.05.2019 / Th 5pm-10pm
7:30pm performance by Mathias Hanin
7:40pm reading by Lydia Haider
16.05.2019 / Th 5pm-10pm
7:30pm performance by Mathias Hanin
7:40pm reading by Lydia Haider
Triggers
Neda Nikolic
Vernissage: 06.06.2019, 7pm
Exhibition: 07.06 - 22.06.2019 / We-Sa 4pm - 8pm
Neda Nikolic
Vernissage: 06.06.2019, 7pm
Exhibition: 07.06 - 22.06.2019 / We-Sa 4pm - 8pm
Wir Sind Wien #15
15.06.2019 / Sa 3pm - 9pm
Performance by Neda Nikolic
Interactive Installation by Lieber Michael
Intervention by Super Nase & Co
15.06.2019 / Sa 3pm - 9pm
Performance by Neda Nikolic
Interactive Installation by Lieber Michael
Intervention by Super Nase & Co
